Publishing Industry Reporting

Poetry Corp is an informal collective of five New York–based small presses.

The year's biggest stories in publishing, from the Anthropic settlement to the demise of NaNoWriMo and more.

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PRH is collaborating with Netflix, which streams KPop Demon Hunters, to publish “fan-forward” titles about the show.

The Dublin-based publisher will focus on current affairs and business titles with a global focus.

The headline finding is that personal recommendation is the top source of book discovery, surpassing social media and platforms like Amazon.

The majority of book awards are pay-to-play deals. Some do little harm, others are genuinely useful, but most make no difference to your career or sales.

A deep dive with three traditional publishers who remain active in the coloring book market, each of them with a different approach.

We remember the late Porter Anderson, who in 2015 co-founded (with Jane) The Hot Sheet email newsletter known today as The Bottom Line.

This excerpt from the new book Digital Inc. by Richard Curtis examines why ebooks failed to supplant print as many tech pioneers expected.

James Patterson and Bookshop.org are partnering on a $15,000 literary prize for debut books. Nominations open on January 5, 2026.

Lakeside, a book manufacturer which spun out of RR Donnelly five years ago, already serves 250 small publishers who handle their own sales.

The venture promises to identify an unpublished novel that will receive a $25,000 contract from Blackstone—but there’s a price.

In 2024, UK’s Nielsen reports that the science fiction and fantasy category secured its biggest year since they began keeping records.

That would put Big Five publisher Macmillan in sixth place in terms of sales volume, but not dollars.

Rachel Swyer has launched the Swyer Agency in New York City, representing fiction and nonfiction.

Pricing increases on books have masked an overall decline in the volume of sales in Europe—more than 5 percent from 2021 to 2024.

The partnership between the two companies is meant to take the guesswork and endless quoting out of special editions.

A coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund in the United States.

The adult market accounted for 80 percent of the most recent quarter’s declines. Romance and thrillers are the categories hardest hit.

Baking cookbooks have seen 80 percent growth this year over last year, and Bible sales grew by 36 percent in the month of September.

Year-to-date sales are so strong that the CEO says the company has moved from number four to become the number three publisher.

The press release says, “[People need] not another life hack, but actual wisdom for the complexity of modern existence.”

According to Circana BookScan, print book sales are down about 1 percent versus last year due to declining sales in adult fiction.

Key Lime will focus on adult nonfiction. When it’s “the right fit,” they will also consider fiction, poetry, children’s, and more.